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General Crook and the Western Frontier
Inbunden, 2001
469 kr
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General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had. And yet, on hearing of Crook's death, the Sioux chief Red Cloud lamented, ""He, at least, never lied to us."" As a young …
Fall of a Black Army Officer
Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
Inbunden, 2008
368 kr
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Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted …
Indian Trial
The Complete Story of the Warren Wagon Train Massacre and the Fall of the Kiowa Nation
Häftad, 2016
168 kr
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Kiowa and Comanche raids on the Southern Plains in 1870-71 terrorized settlers. The raids culminated in the Warren Wagon Train Massacre and the arrest of Satank, Santanta, and Big Tree by General William Tecumseh Sherman. The Jacksboro Indian Trial led to a confrontation between the state of Texas, …
Frontier World of Fort Griffin
The Life and Death of a Western Town
Häftad, 2016
168 kr
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Fort Griffin, Texas, is rarely used in the same sentence with Dodge City, Deadwood, or Tombstone, yet this frontier town was every bit as tough as the places that went down in the history of brutality.Vigilantes, lynchings, ladies of easy virtue, buffalo hunting, gambling, posses, more lynchings, …
General Crook and the Western Frontier
Häftad, 2022
293 kr
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General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had. And yet, on hearing of Crook's death, the Sioux chief Red Cloud lamented, "He, at least, never lied to us." As a young …
Fall of a Black Army Officer
Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
Häftad, 2022
226 kr
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Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted …
The Philosophy of Health and Beauty
Av Charles M. Robinson, Charles Shepherd
Häftad
444 kr
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Diaries of John Gregory Bourke V2; July 29, 1876-April 7, 1878
Av John Gregory Bourke, Charles M Robinson
Inbunden, 2005
661 kr
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This second volume (of a projected set of six) opens as Crook prepares for the expedition that would lead to his infamous and devastating Horse Meat March. Although Bourke retains his loyalty to …
Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Volume 1
November 20, 1872, to July 28, 1876
Häftad, 2024
338 kr
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. Volume 1 begins during the 1872 Apache campaigns and dealings with Cochise. Bourke’s ethnographic notes on the Apaches continues with further observations on the Hopis in 1874. The next year he …
Diaries of John Gregory Bourke V. 3; June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880
Av John Gregory Bourke, Charles M. Robinson
Inbunden, 2007
661 kr
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This third volume (of a projected set of eight) begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called ""an event of such …
Diaries of John Gregory Bourke V. 4; July 3, 1880-May 22, 1881
Inbunden, 2009
661 kr
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fourth volume (of a projected set of eight) chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook's Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy …
Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Volume 5
May 23, 1881-August 26, 1881
Inbunden, 2013
661 kr
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the …
